A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DERAMPING TECHNIQUES FOR SENTINEL-1 TOPS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERFEROMETRY

In this study, we compare the different spectral centering methods (referred to as deramping) for the Sentinel-1 images acquired with the TOPSAR method, in the context of interferometry. The deramping is a necessary step prior to image interpolation. We show the analogy between two different approaches in the literature and propose our own improvements. The proposed deramping method approximately re-centers the spectrum, i.e. a small residual spectral shift remains. We validate our improvements with experiments on Sentinel-1 data, and show that interpolating the images containing this residual spectral shift should not induce considerable errors.